much
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Adjective (1)
Adverb (4)
- to a great degree or extent“she's much better now”
- incredibly“he was much annoyed”
- (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely“much the same thing happened every time”“practically everything in Hinduism is the manifestation of a god”Synonyms: practically
- frequently or in great quantities“I don't drink much”“I don't travel much”Synonyms: a great dealoften
Noun (1)
- a great amount or extent“they did much for humanity”Type of large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
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Translations
Determiner a large amount of
- Spanish
- mucho
- French
- beaucoup
- German
- viel
- Italian
- molto
- Portuguese
- muito
- Turkish
- çok
- Russian
- мно́го mnógo
- Arabic
- كَثِير kaṯīr
- Chinese
- 多 duō
- Japanese
- 多い ōi
29 more languages
- Dutch
- veel
- Polish
- dużo
- Swedish
- mycket
- Korean
- 많이 mani
- Indonesian
- banyak
- Vietnamese
- nhiều
- Hungarian
- sok
- Portuguese (PT)
- muito
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 多 duō
- Albanian
- shumë
- Catalan
- molt
- Corsican
- assai
- Czech
- mnoho
- Danish
- meget
- Esperanto
- multa
- Finnish
- paljon
- Georgian
- ბევრი bevri
- Hebrew
- הַרבֵּה harbé
- Icelandic
- mikill
- Latvian
- daudz
- Lithuanian
- daug
- Malagasy
- betsaka
- Norwegian
- mye
- Romanian
- mult
- Serbo-Croatian
- puno
- Slovak
- veľa
- Slovenian
- veliko
- Welsh
- llawer
- Yiddish
- אַ סך a sakh
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. moche, muche, miche, prob. the same as mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr. AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr. μέγας, fem. μεγάλη, great, and Icel. mjök, adv., much. √103. See Mickle.
1. Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in.— Deut. xxviii. 38.
2. Many in number. archaic
Edom came out against him with much people.— Num. xx. 20.
3. High in rank or position. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
1. A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as I.
He that gathered much had nothing over.— Ex. xvi. 18.
☞ Muchin this sense can be regarded as an adjective qualifying a word unexpressed, and may, therefore, be modified by as, so, too, very.
2. A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable.
And [he] thought not much to clothe his enemies.— John Milton
To make much of, to treat as something of especial value or worth.
Origin: Cf. Icel. mjök. See Much, adjective
To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly. “Much suffering heroes.” Alexander Pope
Thou art much mightier than we.— Gen. xxvi. 16.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool, much less do lying lips a prince.— Prov. xvii. 7.
Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong Life much.— John Milton
All left the world much as they found it.— Sir William Temple
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54